Hey everyone. Preparations are well underway for the return of FISA, and hopefully this will be an outstanding season.

Next Saturday, January 23rd, the rev 17 registration post will go up. To officially register your team for the upcoming season you're going to need four things:

1) A team name

2) Team colors

3) At least three players

4) An arena

You do not have to be affiliated with a town to create a team. The only physical thing you need in Minecraft is an arena that has been approved by a FISA executive. If you don't know the requirements for an arena check out http://redditpublic.com/wiki/FISA.

You also do not need to be affiliated with a town or group to join their team. If you don't have a team but would like to play, contact that team and if they're looking for more players they might just recruit you.

A week after the registration post goes up we're going to start off the season with a large tournament at Sapphric's new arena just west of spawn. This will be for FISA teams, and will count toward the regular season, so be prepared. To participate, your team does not have to be officially registered, but you will have to have three players and a team name.

Finally, to facilitate the return of FISA, a number of people have been appointed to various positions.

Zomise and Silversunset have joined the FISA Executive team, and Sapphric will be returning after a prolonged vacation.

Wyndysascha has been appointed the first FISA Hype Man. May he yell things at people for many years to come.

iNerd71 and Wozdaka have become the first new refs of rev 17. If you're interested in reffing games yourself, contact any of the executives listed on the sidebar.

TL;DR: Make a team, play at the tournament in two weeks.

EDIT: Also ghrey303 will be the last executive joining the team. We already have more executives than there have ever been before, so no more will be added.

EDIT2: Also Tomzski is a Hype Man now.